ECO-LOGIC AWARDS 2021 SOUVENIR BROCHURE

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water Conservation
Award
Proudly supported by
FRIENDS OF THE LIESBEEK
The Friends of the Liesbeek (FoL) is a community-led not-for-profit organisation that aims
to rehabilitate and enhance the ecological integrity and recreational utility of the Liesbeek
River corridor for public good. FoL is comprised of a fully committed volunteer committee of
12 individuals who meet monthly (and often more frequently than that) to plan the actions of the
organisation. The committee ensures, amongst a number of other things, the annual fundraising of over R500
000 to run and manage the Liesbeek Maintenance Project (LMP). The LMP currently employs 9 people. The
LMP Manager, a university graduate with a specialisation in Environmental Management is responsible for the
planning and carrying out of the Liesbeek River Management Plan. The Manager managers a team of 8 full time
employed staff from previously disadvantaged backgrounds who carry out the maintenance work on the river.
The scope of work carried out is broad, including litter collection, alien and invasive plant clearing, restoration
projects including indigenous planting and reintroduction projects, date collection, path, bridge and cycle lane
maintenance and more.
FoL’s vision is a thriving, abundant Liesbeek ecosystem that is in harmony with the diverse people and organisms
it supports. In addition to this, FoL aims to show, through the fully funded LMP, that we can address societal
imbalances by providing real, decent jobs in the environmental sector.
GREATER CAPE TOWN WATER FUND
The Greater Cape Town Water Fund (GCTWF) is a public private partnership initiative established
in 2018 to improve water security for the Greater Cape Town Region. Underpinned by science,
the GCTWF Business Case launched in 2018, has shown that by clearing 54,300 hectares of
invasive plants in 7 priority sub-catchments in the Western Cape Water Supply System, 55 billion
litres of water - 2 months’ water supply for Cape Town - can be reclaimed every year at one tenth of the cost of
engineering solutions such as desalination, water reuse or Table Mountain Group Aquifer drilling. In addition,
clearing the priority areas will create green jobs, protect a biodiversity hotspot - the Cape Floristic Region - and
improve climate resilience. To date over 19,000 hectares were cleared, 470 green job opportunities created and
about 9 billion litres of water reclaimed. 70 High Angle Technicians, of which 40% are women were trained to
work in remote mountainous areas.
HENNOPS REVIVAL
Hennops Revival is a non-profit Organization with the focus on reviving, healing and restoring
the Hennops River, her banks and her people.
There is NO TIME! No time to blame, not time to shame, no time to point fingers, no time to
complain! There is ONLY TIME FOR ACTION!
The river did not degrade overnight and it won’t be restored overnight, but what gets removed from the river
has an impact downstream, and upstream, and helps save our seas and marine life.
Hennops promotes collaboration as we are ALL affected by this, our rivers are the veins of the planet carrying
nutrients all over the world, we must ALL play our part in this!
Besides creating jobs for homeless members of the community, Hennops have designed and installed a litter
trap on the Hennops River, from the bottom up, instead of from the top down,
Hennops believes that the state of our rivers is a direct reflection of a huge amount of pain, a very broken
system, and a massive disconnection from OURSELVES, as beings made up of mostly water.
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